A companion to medieval miracle collections
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A companion to medieval miracle collections
（Reading medieval sources, v. 5）
Brill, c2021
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Bibliography: p. [355]-368
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Miracle accounts provide a window into the views and conceptions of the laity, the uneducated, women, and even children, whose voices are mostly missing from other types of sources. They are not, however, simple to use. This volume offers a methodological insight into the medieval world of the miraculous. Consisting of 15 cutting-edge articles by leading scholars in the field, it provides versatile approaches to the origins, methods, and recording techniques of various types of miracle narratives. It offers fascinating case studies from across Europe, which show how miracle accounts can be used as a source for various topics such as lived religion, healing, protection, and family and gender.
Contributors are Nicole Archambeau, Leigh Ann Craig, Ildiko Csepregi, Jussi Hanska, Emilia Jamroziak, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Jenni Kuuliala, Iona McCleery, Jyrki Nissi, Roberto Paciocco, Donald S. Prudlo, Marika Rasanen, Jonas Van Mulder, and Louise Elizabeth Wilson.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
Miracle Collections in Their Contexts
Sari Katajala-Peltomaa , Jenni Kuuliala and Iona McCleery
1 Writing Miracle Collections
Louise Elizabeth Wilson
2 Miracles in Monastic Culture
Emilia Jamroziak
3 The Canonization of Saints in the Middle Ages
Procedure, Documentation, Meanings
Roberto Paciocco
4 Practical Matters
Canonization Records in the Making
Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Jenni Kuuliala
5 Heretics, Hemorrhages, and Herrings
Miracles and the Canonizations of Dominican Saints
Donald S . Prudlo
6 Miracula and Exempla - A Complicated Relationship
Jussi Hanska
7 Rituals and Spaces of Devotion in Cistercian Everyday Religion
Marika R a s a nen
8 Pilgrimage as a Feature of Miracles
Leigh Ann Craig
9 Physical Disability and Bodily Difference
Jenni Kuuliala
10 Madness, Demonic Possession, and Methods of Categorization
Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
11 Death in a Birth Chamber
Birth Attendants as Expert Witnesses in the Canonization Process of Bernardino of Siena
Jyrki Nissi
12 Escaping Justice?
The Politics of Liberation Miracles in Late Medieval Portugal
Iona McCleery
13 Protection Miracles as Evidence for the Shifting Political Landscape of Fourteenth-Century Provence
Nicole Archambeau
14 The Mobilization of Thought
A Narratological Approach to Representations of Dream and Vision in Late Medieval Miracle Collections in the Low Countries
Jonas Van Mulder
15 Miracle Types and Narratives
The Case of Saint Margaret of Hungary
Ildik o Csepregi
Selected Bibliography
Index
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